{"id":2028,"date":"2014-01-22T04:15:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T04:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/?p=16969"},"modified":"2019-02-05T10:45:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T00:45:28","slug":"how-to-sew-a-sock-monkey-with-no-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/how-to-sew-a-sock-monkey-with-no-socks\/","title":{"rendered":"How to sew a Sock Monkey with NO SOCKS!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woohoo!!!! I am verrrrrrry excited to introduce the newest Funky Friends Factory toy sewing pattern&#8230;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Shelby the NO SOCK Sock Monkey!<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Sheby LOOKS like a traditional sock monkey BUT my sewing pattern is designed to be made from fabric.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>WHY? <\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Well, for 2 reasons&#8230; First of all, I have <strong>NEVER SEEN<\/strong> the traditional Original Rockford Red Heel socks (in  all my years of shopping?) and secondly,\u00a0 I <strong>HAVE SEEN<\/strong> lots of super cute sock monkey  fabrics!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16980\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" title=\"Sock-monkey-fabric\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Sock-monkey-fabric.jpg\" alt=\"sock monkey fabric\" width=\"416\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes my sewing pattern designs are my inspiration for the fabric I use to make my soft toys, and sometimes it&#8217;s the other way around &#8211; the fabric I have bought is the inspiration for the pattern design! How could you NOT be inspired by the gorgeous sock monkey fabrics????? \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16981\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" title=\"Sock-monkey-fabric-traditional-Original-Rockford-Red-Heel-socks\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Sock-monkey-fabric-traditional-Original-Rockford-Red-Heel-socks.jpg\" alt=\"Sock monkey fabric - traditional Original Rockford Red Heel socks\" width=\"416\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now you can make a sock monkey&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>EVEN IF you can&#8217;t find <\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>a cute pair of socks!<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16989\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" title=\"NO-SOCK-Sock-Monkey-sewing-pattern-1\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NO-SOCK-Sock-Monkey-sewing-pattern-1.jpg\" alt=\"NO SOCK sock monkey sewing pattern 1\" width=\"416\" height=\"312\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I had so much fun making my sock monkey&#8230;..<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I had to make some more!!!<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17010\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" title=\"Sock-monkeys-easy-sewing-pattern\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Sock-monkeys-easy-sewing-pattern.jpg\" alt=\"Sock monkeys - easy sewing pattern\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>and <\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>some more!!!<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16997\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" title=\"NO-SOCK-Sock-monkeys-girls.2\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NO-SOCK-Sock-monkeys-girls.2.jpg\" alt=\"NO SOCK Sock monkeys 2\" width=\"416\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>This is a really easy pattern for beginners and children to sew.  You only need a small fabric scrap of the contrast fabric and the pattern looks awesome made up in spots, stripes, plain solids and prints &#8211; so and I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll have as much fun as I did choosing fabrics!<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">What fabric do you think would be good for a Sock Monkey?<\/h2>\n<p><br class=\"clear\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"Teddy-bear-rings\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Teddy-bear-rings.png\" alt=\"Pauline McArthur - Funky Friends Factory\" width=\"224\" height=\"218\" \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Till next time&#8230; <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Sewing, <\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong> Pauline<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>xxx<\/strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6592\" title=\"White-Spacer\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/White-Spacer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"30\" \/><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheby LOOKS like a traditional sock monkey BUT he&#8217;s NOT!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-new-softie-patterns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hippo-foot.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}